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Insects eating can aid digestive health and weight loss, scientists say

Living caterpillars sold in a Central African Market. [Courtesy]

Whenever it rains in Kenya, insects fall a like manna which, coincidentally, means 'given for free' in some Bantu dialects. A once common rainy season delicacy in Kenya is the winged termites, which seem to emerge from nowhere, hovering around our light bulbs and falling off our pathways with abandon.

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